Ice Storm-Berries 1
previous / nextThis was shot on Friday in Mohawk Park the day after we had a nasty ice storm. I have a series of photos of ice storm shots featuring different berries covered in ice that I will be posting in the coming days. I am horticulturally challenged so I have no idea what kinds of berries they are so if anyone can tell me I would appreciate it.
posted by Laurie at 12:00 AM
21 Comments:
wow great shot, cant help with the berry's though.. never experience an ice storm only seen pics, looks very dramatic..
hope all is well
T
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nice usage of the shallow dof and great combination of the red and gray tints
Laurie, that's Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora Thunb.ex Murr.), an invasive in North America and on the Noxious Weed Lists in NJ and PA.
Multiflora Rose is native to Asia. It was intro'd to North America in the late 1800s as root stock for ornamental roses and then promoted in the 1930s by the US Soil Conservation Service as a "living fence" to confine livestock.
Although the flowers and scent are magnficent in the summer (I'm sure you've encountered the sweet fragrance and seen the white flowers cascading from hillsides in June), it displaces native vegetation and restricts wildlife movement due its thickets of thorny, arching stems - sometimes 15 feet high!
It's all over my property and while I love having some of it around for the scent in June and for the bird food in winter, I have to pull it out regularly or it would take over.
You asked. :)
Nice shot!
Very nice. I especially like the muted colors.
I, too, have multiflora all over my property. It is very difficult to erradicate.
Beautifully captured, Laurie!
I hope you're feeling better this weekend and have gotten over that bronchitis. My husband's got it and he's been sick all week.
I love seeing ice pictures but I don't want any part of those ice storms lol!
Wow Kathleen, you really know your stuff both with photography and plants.
I believe I have smelled that wonderful fragrance. I can't quite visualize the flowers in that park though, but I will be sure to really look for them next summer.
The park is so small and backs up to a very busy 10 lane highway; the infamous Garden State Parkway, and it really isn't big enough to support that much wildlife so I'm thinking they may maintain the multiflora for the very reason it is a problem elsewhere. You can walk the perimeter of the park at a brisk pace in under 5 minutes.
When I was growing up in that area I never saw anything more exotic than a duck, recently I have seen buck's with big racks, fox, swans, herons, turkeys, hawks, and numerous other species. Rumor has it there was an alligator in the pond last year and that a bear passed through. The bear was found one town over so It is quite possible that it happened. It is really surprising that there is so much wildlife there because it is such a small park.
wonderful winter photo, this is great for a claender
Even though it's a noxious weed, it made a very nice shot with the ice.
LOVE the shot!
Any diamond has the beauty and the light of this image.!!
this is a fantastic shot, wonderful red colors within almost b/w capture
Nice shot, Laurie; however, it chills my southern blood! :-) I suppose that here in Charlotte we'll get some snow or ice around about February, or perhaps as early as late January.
The ice and the red colors are very festive!
This would be too cold for me, but it makes for a super shot.
Lovely shot Laurie....I wonder if our ice storm was the same as yours??
I love how the ice looks on the berries!!
absolutely wonderful, laurie. great dof and lovely details. winter at its best.
awesome shot! i love that DoF, and the splash of color is beautiful. great work.
Wonderful shot. The DOF is great. Well done
Have been seeing the US bas weather on the news..looks like you are having a hard time... makes a great photo though!
very crisp, I like this.
fantastic shot!
wowo really nice composition
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